FREDDIE Starr was enjoying being nursed back to health by 30-year-old fiancee Sophie Lea yesterday.

Following his dramatic health scare on I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! the pair, in matching red outfits, looked as if they did not have a care in the world, back in the UK it emerged that Sophie has an estranged husband, Jason McCulloch, who claims the 68-year-old comedian stole his partner and mother of his child.

“The pair of them can go to hell,” fumed Mr McCulloch, from Lancashire. “They deserve each other.

“Me and Sophie were happy when she first went to work for him and I knew Freddie’s reputation as a Jack the Lad but I trusted her. When Sophie told me she was leaving it was a bolt out of the blue. We had gone from being happy to her suddenly going, without any arguments in between. I couldn’t believe it.”

Jason is now divorcing Sophie after eight years on grounds of unreasonable behaviour. She left him to be a singer on Starr’s tour two years ago.

The pair of them can go to hell. They deserve each other.

Jason McCulloch

The couple had an emotional reunion yesterday after Sophie dashed to the Australian Gold Coast to be with her “darling Freddie” following his mysterious allergic reaction in the jungle.

While the comedian was settling in to a five-star hotel, his former camp mates were also enjoying a very small taste of the high life after producers allowed every contestant one luxury item.

Lorraine Chase, 60, seemed the happiest of the campers to be reunited with her teddy bear “Tedward”, while Sinnita, 45, fresh from a night in a cockroach-infested cave, got a large fitness ball so she can work out.

Coronation Street actor Antony Cotton, 36, got a pillow signed by his family and 23-year-old Dougie Poynter was given one of his girlfriend’s bandanas.

The Only Way Is Essex star Mark Wright, 24, admitted his hair gel had been a poor choice, however. “I chose the wrong thing,” he confided.

Mark has displayed a softer side during his time in the jungle. After striking up a touching friendship with Cotton, he vowed yesterday to change his womanising ways.

“The jungle has helped me grow up,” he said. “I will live my life a little differently now. It has made me realise there is more to life than rolling around Essex being a nightclub promoter and I haven’t been thinking about girls.”